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Permitting Advice & Guidelines

Permit Application Advice Documents

These documents are intended to help applicants prepare permit applications and certifications with a reduced amount of effort, yielding clearer and more accurate applications. We hope to steer new applicants around some common points of confusion and mistakes, allowing them to prepare applications which are complete on their first try.

We assume that the reader has a moderate level of knowledge in air pollution regulation procedures before they commence in writing a permit application. Taking the time to go over these guides should pay great dividends in time savings later on.

This Fact Sheet is intended to assist in developing Compliance Assurance Monitoring plans (under 40 CFR Part 64) for oil & gas facilities. CAM affects only major sources with relatively large emissions. The Fact Sheet discusses issues and emission sources common to these facilities. Its focus is on compressor engines equipped with either Non-Selective Catalytic Reduction (NSCR) or catalytic oxidation. Example CAM plans for these two systems are included in the appendices.

These guidelines are cited in OAC 252:100-39-42 (a)(4) as follows:
252:100-39-42. Metal cleaning
(a) Cold cleaning facility.
(4) Compliance and recordkeeping. Compliance
shall be determined in accordance with EPA guidance
document "Control of Volatile Organic Emissions from
Solvent Metal Cleaning," 450/2-77-022. Test reports
and maintenance and repair records of control
equipment shall be maintained by the source for at
least two years.